Talk:Villalobos (surname)

(not a Jewish name)

Villalobos / López de Villalobos is not a "jewish" surname. Do you think it's written in hebrew or something? Jews in Spain adopted spanish surnames with weird forms. This surname is derived from the Town Villalobos, in Southern Spain, and has nothing to do with any specific ethnic group. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.42.16.101 (talk) 21:04, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

Extraneous text should be moved

The second paragraph includes this long piece of text, which is not specifically relevant and doesn't belong here:

[This part belongs under Surnames.] Surnames derived from place-names are divided into two broad categories; topographic names and habitation names. Topographic names are derived from general descriptive references to someone who lived near a physical feature such as an oak tree, a hill, a stream or a church. Habitation names are derived from pre-existing names denoting towns, villages and farmsteads. Other classes of local names include those derived from the names of rivers, individual houses with signs on them, regions and whole countries.

[This part belongs under Spanish surnames.] In the 8th century, Spain fell under the control of the Moors, and this influence, which lasted into the 12th century, has also left its mark on Hispanic surnames. A few names are based directly on Arabic personal names. The majority of Spanish occupational and nickname surnames, however, are based on ordinary Spanish derivatives. In Spain identifying patronymics are to be found as early as the mid-9th century, but these changed with each generation, and hereditary surnames seem to have come in slightly later in Spain than in England and France. As well as the names of the traditional major saints of the Christian Church, many of the most common Spanish surnames are derived from personal names of Germanic origin. For the most part these names are characteristically Hispanic. They derive from the language of the Visigoths, who controlled Spain between the mid-5th and early 8th centuries.

--Thnidu (talk) 02:54, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

ramon villalobos

i don't know how to do it properly myself, but shouldn't ramon villalobos be added here? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.176.40.85 (talk) 15:35, 14 October 2020 (UTC)